German politicians everywhere were shocked at Greek prime minister George Papandreou’s shocking decision yesterday to call a referendum on the latest greatest financial rescue package just put together by EU bureaucrats after marathon summit talks held in Brussels.
“One can’t help but think that the Greeks should be more grateful to selfless Europeans like ourselves who are only trying to help,” said one distraught Berliner politician. “Everybody knows that if you’re dumb enough to actually ask the people what they think about our grand European rescue visions they are very likely to speak their minds.”
A poll at the weekend showed nearly 60 percent of Greeks had a negative or partly negative view of the rescue.
Observing Hermann 
Seems we have just entered the terra incognita of democracy here. I am for once very curious what the outcome is going to be. Have already booked a family ticket to the Mars, though.
I bet Dr.Merkel doesn’t have the courage to ask HER nation whether it wants to pay for the Greeks etc 😦
In never-never referendum land the (Wut-)bürger will never-ever have a yes/no vote on anything official, not even on the local scale where money is thrown out of the window daily. Where would Germany be today, if the Bürger could have voted on the Euro? Papa of Athen, after 40 years of never, acting just like a German politician would, throws a useless towel into a ring of fire, which would never had happenend if the Bürger had had a vote.
One reason Europeans have always been so attracted to transnationalism itself is because it seems to enlarge their influence on the world. The thing about it is, is that it depends on governing without the concent of the governed.
It’s especially evident in the EU, with no easily tangible method of succession of power that anyone can identify, a strange distribution of power to “presidents of councils” and so forth, and worst of all, a permanently shifting definition of what the separation of powers between the EU and member states is.
But here we see that when the notion has to be faced directly, that they get all “American Exceptionalistic” all of a sudden.
They are then immediately mocked by the elite for getting in their way, whether they exhibet impetuousness like the Greeks, or vote against a treaty or constitution referendum.
The presumptive elite, just as we see in the Global Governance racket, show through their actions that they think little of the Governed or Seeking their Consent.